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Iroquois Indians
The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee “People of the Longhouse" occupied the area of upstate New York long before the arrival of the Europeans. Questions about them or any of the nine clans of the Iroquois confederacy go here.
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Way of life based on shared beliefs and customs?
Culture is the way of life for people who share similar beliefs and customs.
This word means village of small houses in Iroquois?
The word "Kanata" is an Iroquois word that means a village or small group of houses. It is the word that eventually became the name of Canada.
The bloody and violent Beaver Wars pitted the Nations of the Iroquois Confederation, led by the dominant Mohawk, against the French-backed and mainly Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Great Lakes region.
Did the Iroquois's have a written language?
No, the first tribe to produce a written language in North America was the Cherokee (called Tsalagi). Most other tribes later used English, or developed writing systems based on Latin letters.
What were Iroquois tribes divided into?
Iroquois tribes were divided into three main groups known as the Haudenosaunee, or the Five Nations, which later became the Six Nations with the addition of the Tuscarora. These groups included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later the Tuscarora. Each tribe had its own territory and governance but collaborated through a confederacy that emphasized unity and collective decision-making. The Iroquois League was a significant political and cultural alliance among these tribes.
How o you say shadow in Iroquois?
In the Iroquois language, particularly in the Mohawk dialect, the word for "shadow" is "sahkwé:ri." It's important to note that the Iroquois Confederacy includes several different nations, each with its own dialects and variations, so the term may differ in other Iroquois languages.
What did native americans eat for breakfast?
Native Americans didnâ??t have special breakfast foods because they ate the same types of foods for each meal. This included beans, seeds, fish or other meat, and sometimes bread.
Did Iroquois move from place to place?
According to their Wikipedia entry:
"They called themselves the "Haudenosaunee," meaning "people who live in longhouses."
The name Iroquois is a name given to these tribes by their enemies.
What did the British call the Iroquois?
The Iroquois confederacy called themselves "Powerful group of Native Americans".
Why the Iroquois people referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee?
That is a common modern myth generated by misleading Internet sites and badly informed or completely ignorant writers. The tribes making up the Iroquois League each spoke their own different language - these are closely related, but different. So it would clearly be wrong to think that they all called themselves by the same single name.
The word Hodenosaunee is just one version of the term for "people of the longhouse", which is Hotinonsonni, Haudenosaunee, Hodenosaunee, Ongwanosionni in the languages spoken by the tribes of the League. In Cayuga the term Hodinǫhsǫnidǫh (longhouse people) refers to their own tribal leadership, not to the League.
The Oneida word for a longhouse is kanúhses, by the way. In Cayuga it is ganǫhses.
In each of their languages, each tribe had their own words for the other Iroquois tribes, so the Oneida called the Senecas tsitwanaˀa·ká (people of the mountains); they called the Onondagas onutaˀkeha·ká· (people of the hills) and they called the Cayugas kayukaˀa·ká (people of the mucky land).
Furthermore, each Iroquois tribe had its own specific name for itself and these self-designations would be used far more frequently than "people of the longhouse". Individual tribal identity was valued very highly, even among allies.
Did Iroquois make totem poles?
No, only a few tribes on the west coast of Canada and the north-west coast of the USA made totem poles.
There is no Iroquois Language.
The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee is a Confederacy of Six nations each having their own language. Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora Nations each have their own languages, while many sound alike, each on is different. As with any pre-historic langage, their is no single inventor.
